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Pagina xii
... principles , —a crime which , in conse- quence of his system , he could not avoid , —a crime , which the limited ungeneralizing principle of his mind some - how- or - other impelled him to commit . Without dwelling longer on these ...
... principles , —a crime which , in conse- quence of his system , he could not avoid , —a crime , which the limited ungeneralizing principle of his mind some - how- or - other impelled him to commit . Without dwelling longer on these ...
Pagina xii
... principle , or principles , which regulate her inflections , it is not her fault , it is not because she knows none , neither is it altogether because her principle is involved in such obscurity and doubt . With these observations ...
... principle , or principles , which regulate her inflections , it is not her fault , it is not because she knows none , neither is it altogether because her principle is involved in such obscurity and doubt . With these observations ...
Pagina xxiii
... principles of the inflections of nature , over which no part of speech either has or can have any con- trol ; —and to which there is no conception . By saying that , in pointing land with a semicolon , we are more disposed to read it ...
... principles of the inflections of nature , over which no part of speech either has or can have any con- trol ; —and to which there is no conception . By saying that , in pointing land with a semicolon , we are more disposed to read it ...
Pagina xxv
... principle of com- is inevitable . plete sense , It is needless to say that these sentences might have been thus expressed , I come not to praise Cæsar , but to bury him . We have come not to betray our country , but to defend it . This ...
... principle of com- is inevitable . plete sense , It is needless to say that these sentences might have been thus expressed , I come not to praise Cæsar , but to bury him . We have come not to betray our country , but to defend it . This ...
Pagina xxvi
... principle of our rule , that nature inflects upward , what is called the penultimate member of a sentence . Notice the following : - Beloved ! be not ignorant of this one thing , that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years ' , and ...
... principle of our rule , that nature inflects upward , what is called the penultimate member of a sentence . Notice the following : - Beloved ! be not ignorant of this one thing , that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years ' , and ...
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Pagina 205 - KNOW ye the land where the cypress and myrtle Are emblems of deeds that are done in their clime? Where the rage of the vulture, the love of the turtle, Now melt into sorrow, now madden to crime...
Pagina 238 - Thy shores are empires, changed in all save thee — Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are they? Thy waters wasted them while they were free, And many a tyrant since ; their shores obey The stranger, slave or savage ; their decay Has dried up realms to deserts — not so thou Unchangeable, save to thy wild waves
Pagina 245 - They say it was a shocking sight After the field was won; For many thousand bodies here Lay rotting in the sun; But things like that, you know, must be After a famous victory. "Great praise the Duke of Marlbro' won, And our good Prince Eugene.
Pagina 232 - The spirits of your fathers Shall start from every wave ! — For the deck it was their field of fame, And Ocean was their grave...
Pagina 218 - Last noon beheld them full of lusty life, Last eve in Beauty's circle proudly gay, The midnight brought the signal-sound of strife, The morn the marshalling in arms — the day Battle's magnificently stern array...
Pagina 283 - With a bare bodkin ? who would fardels bear, To grunt and sweat under a weary life, But that the dread of something after death, The undiscover'd country from whose bourn No traveller returns, puzzles the will, And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of ? Thus conscience does make cowards of us all...
Pagina 253 - As awaked from the dead, And amazed he stares around. Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries, See the Furies arise ! See the snakes that they rear, How they hiss in their hair, And the sparkles that flash from their eyes!
Pagina 253 - Think, O think it worth enjoying! Lovely Thais sits beside thee, Take the good the gods provide thee!
Pagina 250 - I'll meet the raging of the skies, But not an angry father." The boat has left a stormy land, A stormy sea before her, — When, oh ! too strong for human hand. The tempest gathered o'er her.
Pagina 217 - There was a sound of revelry by night, And Belgium's capital had gathered then Her Beauty and her Chivalry, and bright The lamps shone o'er fair women and brave men...